Articles by Madhukar N Hiregange

Technology Contracts - VAT Vs Service Tax

Posted by Madhukar N Hiregange 21 August 2013 16437 Views

Technology Contracts- Liability under VAT or Service Tax? This category covers information technology, IT enabled service and telecommunication industry. Today businesses are done in various complex manner through different jurisdictions in differen

Tax Planning Tool to reduce cost - Indirect Taxation

Posted by Madhukar N Hiregange 19 August 2013 18102 Views

Tax planning needs to be differentiated from tax evasion wherein one suppresses recording his sales/ services or undervalues the same deliberately. T

Understanding Place of Provision of Services

Posted by Madhukar N Hiregange 12 August 2013 66807 Views

Place of Provision of Services Rules 1. Introduction Under earlier method of taxation(positive list based) the services which was provided in India was taxable. Section 66A was introduced to tax services which

Suggestions to FM- CBEC on VCES

Posted by Madhukar N Hiregange 01 August 2013 7945 Views

Voluntary Compliance Encouragement Scheme VCES Suggestions to make it Successful CA Madhukar N Hiregange The VCES scheme purports to be for the 17 lakhs non filer and non payers. It is a variation of several amnesty scheme we have see

A guide to interaction with Tax departments

Posted by Madhukar N Hiregange 11 July 2013 16859 Views

Introduction: Though the law and procedures under both service tax and central excise are made user friendly, assessee are still finding difficulties in interaction with the department officials. This may be because of lack of awareness of related

Best Practices - Reply to SCN

Posted by Madhukar N Hiregange 13 June 2013 18789 Views

The service tax law has resulted in a large number of disputes [ more than 1 lakhs + pending as on date] mainly due to the fact that the law is changing frequently and drafting has been seen to have many loose ends. The trigger happy attitude of so

Place of Provision of Service - Including Issues

Posted by Madhukar N Hiregange 11 June 2013 39163 Views

Introduction Under earlier method of taxation (positive list based) the services which were provided in India were taxable, without any distinction of f

Reverse- Joint Charge - Possible Way Out

Posted by Madhukar N Hiregange 07 June 2013 12412 Views

Reverse- Joint Charge Under Service Tax- Possible Way Out CA Madhukar N Hiregange The common citizen, the trader [ big & small] , small scale service providers, manufacturers who in normal course are not providing services would not be registere

Impact of Service Tax on Different Audits

Posted by Madhukar N Hiregange 29 May 2013 83644 Views

This article provides some inputs on what care a CA should take or at least shouldbe aware when conducting the tax audit, internal audit or statutary audit. We have included some